Marc VDS Considering Blancpain Endurance Nürburgring Outing - Sportscar365
After scoring a convincing win in the Total 24 Hours of Spa last month, Marc VDS Racing Team is considering adding the season ending Nürburgring round to its schedule as it’s now in the hunt for both Blancpain Endurance Pro Cup titles. Despite missing the two opening rounds of the Blancpain Endurance Series and only participating in the Paul Ricard 1000km in preparation for Spa, the third place finish of Markus Palttala, Lucas Luhr and Maxime Martin in France now means the... Spa winners Palttala and Luhr only face a ten-point deficit to Frank Stippler and Stéphane Ortelli, while the margin is 14 points in the teams’ standings. The Finnish-German Marc VDS duo might be able to repeat the performance of HTP Motorsport’s Maxi Buhk from 2013, who also missed the first two races of the five-round series, but went on to grab the title after winning Spa. We’re working on it and hope to be there,” technical director Sébastien Metz told Endurance-Info the day after the race. Together with DTM team MTEK, Marc VDS Racing is currently developing the new BMW M6 GT3 and GTLM, with the team hoping to know their 2016 program by September. The novelty of HTP winning the championship by swooping down and winning Spa has warn off and will be a signal to other teams that may enter only half or the last three rounds and if they are in the hunt after that, then enter the final round. Source: sportscar365.com
